BioTech 3.0 On It's Way

Today innovation in biology is not as easy as writing a phone app. A phone app can be written in a weekend whereas innovation in biology can still require years. There are some exceptions though. We witnessed the rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccine by the Moderna RNA vaccine team, within 2 days of receiving the genome sequence of the virus. Vaccine design today has already become comparable to writing a phone app - though the clinical trials and regulatory approvals processes remain long and hard. Biotech 3.0 will give us platforms to write living machines as apps, with the same ease with which we today write phone apps.